Finally, it's Ray Davies's turn to make the elder-statesmen-collaborates-with-star-admirers album. See My Friends sees him plunder his back catalogue, with generally pleasurable results. Though Bruce Springsteen's gruff bark is an uncomfortable fit with Davies's camp quaver, they recast Better Things as a Byrdsy ramble that's an improvement on the original's clumping new wave. Metallica make a decent fist of You Really Got Me, often cited as the first heavy metal song, and Mumford & Sons turn a mash-up of Days and This Time Tomorrow into an agreeable hoedown. The only outright failure is Celluloid Heroes, turned into a power ballad by Jon Bon Jovi, with a squealing guitar solo from Richie Sambora. The songs, of course, are imperishable, but why anyone would prefer this to a decent Kinks compilation is a bit of a mystery: does the presence of Jackson Browne really add anything to a song as close to perfection as Waterloo Sunset? Of course it doesn't.